Train derailment that killed 3 in Germany apparently was caused by landslide
More than 100 people were aboard the Deutsche Bahn train when at least two carriages derailed Sunday evening in a forested area near Riedlingen , about 158 kilometers (98 miles) west of Munich.
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Germany updates: Domestic violence at all-time high — report
Nearly 257,000 people were registered as victims of domestic violence last year, a new record, a report by the weekly Welt am Sonntag has said. This means that a person suffered mistreatment at the hands of a partner, ex-partner or family member every two minutes or so on average, according to figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office cited by the paper. Meanwhile, the section of railroad between the western cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg has reopened after repairs to damage caused by suspected sabotage on Thursday. Below, you can read about some of the stories making the headlines in Germany on August 2, 2025: Train services resume on key route after arson attacks Train services resumed early on Saturday on the railway line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg in western Germany after successful repairs to cable damage caused by arson attacks. A railway spokesman said test runs had been conducted before the resumption of services to ensure that all was functioning correctly. The suspected arson attacks caused damage to cables vital for operating switches and signals. Police believe left-wing extremists were behind the disturbance and are treating the incident as sabotage. A leftist group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in a letter that is being examined by police. Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the attacks occurred, told a press conference that the extremist group had "carried out several acts of sabotage in the Düsseldorf area in recent years." The route between Düsseldorf and Duisburg is one of Germany's busiest railway connections, with more than 620 passenger trains using the line every day. Consumer group sues budget airlines over hand luggage fees A German consumer group has launched legal action against several budget airlines, saying that their charges for hand luggage violate existing law. Ramona Pop, the chairwoman of the vzbv consumer umbrella body, told the daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that many carriers were "charging inadmissible fees and thus misleading consumers about flight prices." She said that while current rules obliged airlines to carry reasonably sized hand luggage free of charge, many budget airlines allowed only a small personal item in the base fare, demanding a paid upgrade for larger items. She said the vzbv had issued formal warnings to several carriers, with lawsuits filed against Ryanair, EasyJet, Wizzair and Vueling Airlines. The vzbv's legal action is part of a broader Europe-wide campaign, she said. The group is basing its legal actions on a ruling by the European Court of Justice in 2014 that hand luggage is a fundamental necessity of air travel rather than an optional extra provided by an airline. Domestic violence cases reach new record — report Cases of violence within private households have reached a record level, according to a report by the weekly Welt am Sonntag that cites statistics from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Altogether 256,942 people were registered as victims of domestic violence in 2024, a 3.7% increase over the previous year, the paper said. Women suffer the most from domestic violence, making up 73% of registered cases, according to the report. Violence from partners or ex-partners accounted for 171,069 victims, a 1.9% increase over 2024. There was also a 7.3% increase in violence between family members, with 94,873 cases, according to the BKA. Over the past five years, domestic violence has surged by almost 14%, the BKA says. Welcome to our coverage Guten Tag from the team in DW's newroom on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn! Today, we will be looking at the latest statistics showing another worrying rise in the number of cases of domestic violence in the country. Germany's railroad system is also in focus following what seems to have been a case of major sabotage on a key section. If you are interested in the major talking points in Europe's largest economy, we hope we have the right stories for you here in our blog on Saturday, August 2!
Wall Street Journal
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‘Lovers of Frank K.' Review: Book of Betrayal
'Dearest Max . . . burn all my diaries, manuscripts, letters . . . completely and unread.' When Max Brod, in 1924, defied Franz Kafka's dying wish to consign his papers to flames, he committed a betrayal that had enduring literary consequences. His act of disobedience secured Kafka's literary immortality precisely by violating the author's explicit desire for oblivion. This transgression—literature's archetypical broken promise—gives Burhan Sönmez fertile ground for his brief and beguiling novella, 'Lovers of Franz K.,' translated from Kurdish by Sami Hêzil. Mr. Sönmez, the current president of PEN International and a former human-rights lawyer in Istanbul, situates his fiction amid the political convulsions of West Berlin in the fevered summer of 1968. In this invented scenario, an aged and frail Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor and former confidant, arrives in Berlin from Tel Aviv to give a talk on Kafka, only to be shot by an assailant and wounded. The intended assassination of Brod inadvertently claims the life of an innocent young student, Ernest Fischer. Initially, the authorities suspect an ideological motive. 'It seems that an antisemitic group has begun a campaign of aggression against prominent writers and intellectuals,' the prosecutor surmises, 'and they picked Max Brod as their first target. It would be a good start for them. Mr. Brod is someone who fled the Nazis during the war and settled in present-day Israel. Besides his writing, he is recognized for his dedication to the Zionist ideal.' The novella swiftly leads the reader away from this hypothesis when it emerges that the assailant, Ferdy Kaplan—a German-Turkish radical orphaned by World War II and raised in Istanbul—attacked Brod not because of his heritage but for a literary transgression. Kaplan condemns Brod with fanatic fervor, branding him—through the prosecutor's recounting—as a traitor 'more treacherous than the traitors during the war' for forcing Kafka into immortality by editing, altering and ultimately publishing his friend's unfinished manuscripts. The assailant portrays Brod neither as selfless savior nor faithful steward of his friend's unfinished works but as a posthumous ventriloquist who made Kafka's voice marketable. Kaplan's sentiments echo a letter he read in a literary magazine: 'Kafka can no longer be erased, but Max Brod . . . may pay the price.'
Washington Post
a day ago
- Washington Post
Death toll soars in Russian strike on Kyiv; Germany to send air defenses
KYIV — Ukrainian officials said Friday that the death toll in Kyiv from a Russian aerial bombardment the day before had nearly doubled overnight to at least 31, as more bodies were pulled from under rubble, making it the deadliest strike on the capital so far this year. As the grim recovery operations continued, Germany announced it would provide two Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming days and that Berlin would be at the top of a list to receive new-model replacements from the United States.
